“Show me the man, and I will show you the crime" Lavrentiy Beria. “In Amerikka, everyone has the right to a trial to prove his innocence” Nancy Pelosi The following explanatory paragraph about who Baria was was written in 2018; it was already outdated then, but its status as “no longer operative” was only made clear yesterday: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” was Beria’s infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin’s death in 1953, supervising the expansion of the gulags and other secret detention facilities for political prisoners. He became part...